The first table below looks at the demand for the FPGA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FPGA Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Middlesex region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FPGA Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring an FPGA Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £373 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £41.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +18.57%
All Job Titles
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
191 268 310
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 92.72% 86.17% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 135 143
Average daily rate £388 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 20
Average hourly rate £32.50 £31.50 £28.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% +11.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.63 £15.90 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £39.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
FPGA Engineer
South East

FPGA Engineer
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region that cited FPGA Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with FPGA Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Tcl
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx
1 1 (100.00%) Communications Security
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Actel
1 1 (100.00%) EMB Igloo

FPGA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region that cited FPGA Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with FPGA Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) EMB Igloo
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx
1 1 (100.00%) Actel